School transmutation [earth]; Level druid 1, sorcerer/wizard 1
CASTINGCasting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S, M (tiny shovel)EFFECTRange close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Area dirt in a 5-ft. cube
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw see text; Spell Resistance noDESCRIPTIONYou can excavate and move earth, dust, and sand up to the size of a 5-foot cube. If you are buried, you may open a 5-foot cube around yourself, but the spell cannot be used for tunneling.
Besides its mundane applications, you can open a 5-foot-deep pit at a creature's feet. A Medium or smaller creature falls prone in the pit unless it succeeds on a Reflex save. With a successful save, it can choose to land harmlessly on its feet in the pit or hop to an adjacent square; this movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity. A creature can escape a 5-foot-deep pit with a DC 5 Climb check. Larger creatures may ignore pits smaller than their size.
The earth excavated by this spell is ordinarily distributed harmlessly across the spell's range, but you may choose to throw up a burst of grit and debris when you dig a pit. This cloud of debris provides concealment to any creatures in the square affected and all adjacent squares for 1 round. Expeditious excavation has no effect on solid rock or earth creatures.
So here's my question. If the guy fails his save and winds up at the bottom of the 5 ft pit, and I leave the dirt dug lining the edge of it.
The next round, if he doesn't climb out, can I cast the spell again and pour the surrounding earth back on top of him? It says I can "move earth up to a 5ft cube", and the area of the spell is a 5 ft cube.
And let's say I can, would he get another reflex save to avoid being knocked prone and buried 5ft deep? If he succeeds, would he be buried standing up?
Thoughts?
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The excavated dirt is not within a 5-foot cube (from the Area line). You could push one-eighth of the excavated material back into the hole with another casting, filling it in by about 7 1/2 inches. This wouldn't bury the victim, although it might force him to use 10' of movement to get out due to the loose dirt encumbering him.
Digging another 5-foot cubic pit next to him would have much the same effect, except that the resulting hole would be 5' x 10' x 4-and-a-bit feet deep.
I presume the inability to use the spell for tunnelling means that you can't dig down from the bottom of the pit.